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TREE 19 SEP 06
Messrs. Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners
to Crown Agents.
21, Delahay Street,
Westminster, S.W.
10. September 1906,
Kowloon Canton Railway
British Section.
Gentlemen,
With reference to your letter of 4th inst.
enclosing copy of a letter from His Excellency the
Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies we regret that we have apparently misread the
documents sent with your letter of 26th February as we
were under the impression that we were asked to report not
only on the preliminary reclamation for the railway at
Kowloon, but also on the completed scheme.
This we now
see from His Excellency's letter is not the case and we
therefore need not trouble you to apply to the Admiralty
for a large plan of Hung Hom Bay.
We note that it is now proposed to continue the
preliminary reclamation until it abuts on Messrs. Blackhead
and Company's Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81 in accordance with
the revised plan received with the Chief Resident Engineer's
General Letter No. 4 dated 1st June. On receipt of this
plan we were somewhat at a loss how to deal with it as the
plan differed considerably from the plan received from
the Public Works Department accompanying your letter of
6th.